Add Who's Online Locations From Admin CP

General Info
This hack was requested to be available on Vbulletin 3. Being bored, I figured I would take the task in hand and complete it, to be better than it ever was before.

The original designer of the hack (on Vbulletin 2) is the well known Chen Avinadav, which being the great coder that he is, I dont particularly agree with his methods in this case, which he used a an excess query to select data from a template and loop through. This uses the built in datastore of vb3, therefore using No extra queries.

Therefore this hack is Completely original, in every way. I have used a different method, for accomplishing this, and the control panel I have created is intuitive and utlilizes a great many of vbulletins built in controls and phrases. Looking at the code itself on the admin panel alone you will see I didnt just throw this together and slap it on the site. Total creation time was around 4 hours, the code itself not being the main part, just mainly working out issues with the control panel etc..

Features
My version which is completely new, allows you to add the filename for the who's online along with the location name, and URL Title of the link.

The control panel which was the longest part, is pretty concise in how it works considering what I did to it. Provides a good bit of error checking to keep from accidentally doing stuff you didn't intend to do.

Also should note, the deletion part of the script uses JavaScript to confirm whether or not you wish to delete the selected Location.

I hope this gets a lot of installs, being as that my other 2 hacks/bug fixes were really just something I did in a few minutes and didn't put a great deal of effort into, judging by the fact I didnt have to "edit" any vbulletin files, to do what I wanted.

This is really my first release on this site, that I can say I believe is unique in its effort, and shows some insight on things for the newer coders out there. I have put a great deal of effort into the setup of everything as well as the readme file to be concise and as easy to read and understand as possible.

Hopefully hack of the month, lol.. j/k

Installation
I have provided an readme file inside of the zip, with information on how to install the hack, and what needs to be done to do so. Its a fairly easy installation, as you only have to add things.

Other Misc.
Files To Modify: 2
Total Modifications: 6
Installation Difficulty: Easy

Version Updates
Version 1.0 = First Release
Version 1.1 = Fixed Weird Query Error For Some People
Version 1.2 = Added ability to enable/disable links for locations

Click install if you like. Thanks.

[LuBi]

Working fine in a highly modded and styled 3.0.7 board. This modification is a must for anyone with major additions. This should be standard issue in vB and is one of the missing features. Thanks!

in vB 3.0.7

in step 3 when modifying (functions_online.php) in edit 1
i looked for $ipclass instead of that whole line
and added $custom_online at the end of the line before the ;

in other words..

find

PHP Code:

global $limitlower, $limitupper, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $ipclass, $show, $forumcache, $usergroupcache; 


and replace with

PHP Code:

global $limitlower, $limitupper, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $ipclass, $show, $forumcache, $usergroupcache, $custom_online; 


:squareeyed:

[SmartGnome]

I agree with the former speaker Aye Aye

Thanks for the mod and Install is clicked :up: :up:

[paul41598]

I love and have been using this mod. However its not working for one of my locations.

I have CMPS 2.0 installed, and my cmps_index.page is in root. My forums are in /forums/

However if I add ./cmps.index as show in the screenshot, it still shows up

Unknown Location
/cmps_index.php

in my whos online when I view it

[m0nde]

Something else that should have been part of the original code!

Nice job!

- Sid

[Jako]

I have a few questions...

I have this site, www.h2mp.com that basically checks when you go there to see if you are logged into the forums or not. So when someone logins it it shows on the main page they are logged in as well.

Problem is outside of the forums on www.h2mp.com/index.php it is treating that like the index of the forums i guess beause it is checking to see if you are logged in as well.

I have it in the admin cp for the file to be ././index.php and it should come up with the custom title though it is still saying viewing forum index etc.

My script to check if you are logged in is simple, just like if(!$bbuserinfo['userid']){ etc while i require the global.php file. Is there anything i can do to fix this, by requiring other files, or making some changes

[Jako]

If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please wait 24 hours before bumping your post Jako

[mismatch]

seems I'm a year behind everyone else lol but installed this (nice and easy thanks) but like a number of others would like a further development so it includes files outside the VB directory as thats where all my unknown locations are.

[Hades-1]

im sorry but this hack just does not work for me, i installed many hacks i know what im doing.

but no matter what everything still says "unknown Location"

does anyone want to take a screenie of their admincp and show me how they are entering their info?

[COBRAws]

waiting for a 3.5 port :P